From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Sep 27 1999 - 06:26:23 MDT
GBurch1@aol.com writes:
> With this in mind - and girding for controversy - Galli named his bull in
> honor of the Renaissance astronomer who faced the wrath of the Inquisition
> for saying the Earth revolves around the Sun.
>
> "It wasn't an accident we named him Galileo," Galli told the daily Corriere
> della Sera.
This was a good move. It is up to us to spread the word now and make
people see the correlations. "Engineered" controversies like this can
be useful sometimes.
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